From: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>
To: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com>,
Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@google.com>,
David Gow <davidgow@google.com>,
"open list:KERNEL SELFTEST FRAMEWORK"
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Knut Omang <knut.omang@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 linux-kselftest-test 3/6] kunit: allow kunit tests to be loaded as a module
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2019 16:42:53 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFd5g46A5gyGg0g+GmLRFM1DY=ySf_85P2T7+VYqm4nD8J9wBA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191204003851.GF86484@mit.edu>
On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 4:39 PM Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 03, 2019 at 09:54:25AM -0800, Brendan Higgins wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 4:08 AM Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > As tests are added to kunit, it will become less feasible to execute
> > > all built tests together. By supporting modular tests we provide
> > > a simple way to do selective execution on a running system; specifying
> > >
> > > CONFIG_KUNIT=y
> > > CONFIG_KUNIT_EXAMPLE_TEST=m
> > >
> > > ...means we can simply "insmod example-test.ko" to run the tests.
> > >
> > > To achieve this we need to do the following:
> > >
> > > o export the required symbols in kunit
> > > o string-stream tests utilize non-exported symbols so for now we skip
> > > building them when CONFIG_KUNIT_TEST=m.
> > > o support a new way of declaring test suites. Because a module cannot
> > > do multiple late_initcall()s, we provide a kunit_test_suites() macro
> > > to declare multiple suites within the same module at once.
> > > o some test module names would have been too general ("test-test"
> > > and "example-test" for kunit tests, "inode-test" for ext4 tests);
> > > rename these as appropriate ("kunit-test", "kunit-example-test"
> > > and "ext4-inode-test" respectively).
> > >
> > > Co-developed-by: Knut Omang <knut.omang@oracle.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Knut Omang <knut.omang@oracle.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com>
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>
>
> Acked-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> # for ext4 bits
>
>
> I do have one question, out of curiosity --- for people who aren't
> using UML to run Kunit tests, and are either running the kunit tests
> during boot, or when the module is loaded, is there the test framework
> to automatically extract the test reports out of dmesg?
>
> I can boot a kernel with kunit tests enabled using kvm, and I see it
> splatted intermixed with the rest of the kernel boot messages. This
> is how I tested the 32-bit ext4 inode test fix. But I had to manually
> find the test output. Is that the expected way people are supposed to
> be using Kunit tests w/o using UML and the python runner?
For now, yes. We do not currently have a piece that extracts the test
reports; however, we are planning on pulling that bit out of
tools/testing/kunit/; we just haven't gotten around to it yet.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-04 0:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-03 12:07 [PATCH v5 linux-kselftest-test 0/6] kunit: support building core/tests as modules Alan Maguire
2019-12-03 12:07 ` [PATCH v5 linux-kselftest-test 1/6] kunit: move string-stream.h to lib/kunit Alan Maguire
2019-12-03 12:07 ` [PATCH v5 linux-kselftest-test 2/6] kunit: hide unexported try-catch interface in try-catch-impl.h Alan Maguire
2019-12-03 12:07 ` [PATCH v5 linux-kselftest-test 3/6] kunit: allow kunit tests to be loaded as a module Alan Maguire
2019-12-03 17:54 ` Brendan Higgins
2019-12-04 0:38 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-12-04 0:42 ` Brendan Higgins [this message]
2019-12-04 0:51 ` Brendan Higgins
2019-12-04 15:41 ` Alan Maguire
2019-12-05 0:00 ` Iurii Zaikin
2019-12-06 13:53 ` Alan Maguire
2019-12-04 0:17 ` Iurii Zaikin
2019-12-04 15:30 ` Alan Maguire
2019-12-04 0:55 ` David Gow
2019-12-03 12:07 ` [PATCH v5 linux-kselftest-test 4/6] kunit: remove timeout dependence on sysctl_hung_task_timeout_seconds Alan Maguire
2019-12-03 22:45 ` Brendan Higgins
2019-12-03 12:07 ` [PATCH v5 linux-kselftest-test 5/6] kunit: allow kunit to be loaded as a module Alan Maguire
2019-12-03 22:47 ` Brendan Higgins
2019-12-03 12:07 ` [PATCH v5 linux-kselftest-test 6/6] kunit: update documentation to describe module-based build Alan Maguire
2019-12-03 22:50 ` Brendan Higgins
2019-12-03 23:06 ` [PATCH v5 linux-kselftest-test 0/6] kunit: support building core/tests as modules Brendan Higgins
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